Western Cape
Thursday 13 February – Bonnievale River Lodge Campsite 14.18. This is the first opportunity I have had to write anything, when usually I start the journal off before we have even left the U.K. This is a different sort of trip to any we have made before. To begin with we have always travelled to Southern Africa during November and December. I don’t think it will make a lot of difference to the conditions for this trip as The Western Cape, where we intend to stay, has a Mediterranean climate and the weather is much the same from November through to March. Maybe February, equivalent to our August is a little hotter. It will be warm and sunny, but there may also be some rain. Further north we would probably have noticed a big difference. November is the end of the dry period and the rains can come anytime from mid-November to mid-December, depending on where you are. We have experienced some torrential downpours, with flooding. After the long dry period, I can’t call it winter as tha...